On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> GridCD
>
> I am doing some investigation into a Morphix (read Knoppix) based Grid CD
> which could be used to rapidly boot up a machine into a WN. The idea would
> be to allow us (Oxford) to turn the piles of highly speced desktop machines
> quickly into WNs for overnight, holiday, and weekend operation. Jobs still
> running when the user returned would be killed (not so nice), unless I can
> come up with some better way for PBS to manage this.
As some point soon checkpointing comes into WP1 job submission
components. I think the theory is that at sensible points in the job the
state is recorded so it can be resumed from that point. I expect
there is something on the WP1 website.
>
> For example, I have a P4 1.8 GHz, with 40 gigs HD space (37 gigs free), and
> 400 megs of RAM. My office is filled with these. They are used for email,
> web browsing, and ssh sessions. That leads to:
>
> GridVM
>
> The other idea is to use VMWare or Bochs to run an emulator with the EDG
> software running on it as a WN. This would have much lower performance (but
> still would probably be useful), but would start up more quickly, and would
> be easier to "turn off" when the regular user returns (by lowering the
> priority on the task). Again, the objective is to make use of the
> significant number of machines which probably average a 1% CPU load.
>
> If anyone has any comments or ideas about these, I'd be interested to hear.
>
> Ian.
>
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